Orus Apollo de Aegypte De la signification des notes hieroglyphiques des Aegyptiens : cest a dire des figures par les quelles ilz escripuoient leurs mysteres secretz, & les choses sainctes & diuines

by: Horapollo; Martin, Ian, -approximately 1553, attributed name, woodcutter; Cousin, Jean, approximately 1490-1560? attributed name, woodcutter; Goujon, Jean, active 16th century, attributed name, woodcutter; Kerver, Jacques, -1583, printer; Belz, Jean-Philippe, 1831-1917, binder; Essling, Victor Massena, prince d', 1836-1910, former owner

Publication date: 1543

Topics: Egyptian language

Publisher: On les uend a Paris ... : Par Iacques Keruer

Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Boston Public Library

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: French

Colophon reads: Imprime a Paris pour Iaques Keruer libraire ... & fut acheve de imprimer le xxiij iour de Novembre Mil cinq cens.xliij

Of the 197 woodcuts, seven are repeats and the last ten and their text were added by the translator, probably Jean Martin. The 5 x 5 cm. woodcuts have been attributed to Jean Cousin (probably the elder) and to Jean Goujon. Mortimer opines that at least two different artists were involved. Cuts on a6v and a8v are mounted over misprinted ill

Signatures: a-ńı

Mortimer, R. French 16th cent.

Murray, C.F. French books

Praz, M. 17th-cent. imagery

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in late-19th/early-20th-century blue morocco by Jean-Phillippe Belz (signed at front). The covers are panelled in gilt with the super-ex-libris of Victor Massena, Prince d'Essling, in their centers. The spine is panelled and tooled in gilt with the monogram "VM" in each compartment. The turn-ins are richly tooled in gilt and the doublures are of red watered silk

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Associated-names: Martin, Ian, -approximately 1553, attributed name, woodcutter; Cousin, Jean, approximately 1490-1560? attributed name, woodcutter; Goujon, Jean, active 16th century, attributed name, woodcutter; Kerver, Jacques, -1583, printer; Belz, Jean-Philippe, 1831-1917, binder; Essling, Victor Massena, prince d', 1836-1910, former owner